Innovative partnership with UWM

Carroll University partners with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences to offer an innovative, integrated 3+2 bachelor's and master's degree program that leads to your advanced degree in as little as five years. You’ll spend three years at Carroll, completing your Bachelor of Science degree in either Environmental Science or Biology. You’ll transfer to UWM your final two years, earning your Master of Science in Freshwater Science.

You’ll benefit from an education that offers you the best of both worlds – a premier, private school focusing on small class sizes and personal attention and a large, nationally-recognized research institution. You’ll study in a variety of natural habitats—from Carroll’s Greene Field Station and Prairie Springs Environmental Education Center, offering 75 acres of rare wetlands in the glaciated landscape of the southern Kettle Moraine—to Milwaukee’s Lake Michigan, the sixth largest freshwater lake in the world.

Start at Carroll

Choose from Carroll's Environmental Science LINK program, which integrates the Earth Sciences, Chemistry and Ecology with opportunities to customize the curriculum to your interests; or the Biology LINK program, where you’ll focus on living systems, animals, plants, microbes and human life.

Undergraduate program highlights:

Access to the diverse freshwater and terrestrial habitats of the Kettle Moraine region

Ability to investigate water resource issues relevant to the urban-suburban environments in southeastern Wisconsin

Opportunities for involvement in undergraduate research projects with hands-on guidance from faculty

Cross-cultural curriculum that prepares students for work in a global economy

Off-campus research and study at the Greene Field Station, the Prairie Springs Environmental Education Center and Paul Fleckenstein Research Laboratory

Finish at UWM

UWM is the only graduate school in the nation dedicated solely to the study of freshwater, preparing future scientists and professionals with the skills needed to address the critical challenges facing the world's freshwater resources. The UW-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences is located in Milwaukee's harbor district on the shores of Lake Michigan, the ideal location to study water. The facilities are equipped with an Aquatic Robotics Lab, Analytical Core Facility, DNA Sequencing Lab, Fish Research Labs and more.

Choose from the M.S. in Freshwater Science: Thesis Track, which focuses on completing original research and prepares you for advancement toward a Ph.D, or the Professional Science Track, a program that develops marketable skills for working with agency, industry and non-profit partners in a wide range of careers.

Master’s program Highlights

Work alongside scientists and faculty who produce internationally-recognized research in human and ecosystem health, freshwater system dynamics, technology, policy and economics

Access to state-of-the-art facilities, including a dockside teaching lab, aquaculture and aquaponics teaching labs and a marine operations building currently under construction

Partnerships and internship opportunities open doors for students to work with leaders in aquatic industries, agencies and non-profit companies.